Do you sleep with your Blackberry?

By on July 30, 2007 in News

Link: People Taking Their BlackBerry Handsets to Bed With Them

According to a recent research conducted for AOL by Opinion Research Corporation, 43% of American mobile email users are so addicted they take their device to bed with them. 

The survey also found that the average email user checks mail about five times a day, and 59% with mobile email jump straight on the case everytime a new mail arrives. 

Rather concerningly, around 40% of those surveyed plan their holiday around the availability of access to their email, and 83% admit to checking their mail while away. 

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  • http://www.rfmo.com Loulou

    I wonder …when they say “they”, do they mean “men”?

    Sorry guys, but you don’t need to be checking your email every moment of every evening! And I don’t know any woman who does it!

  • cyclist

    Meet a woman who checks her email in bed!

    It’s on a Windows Mobile phone, not a Blackberry, and in the mornings, not evenings. I am very much not a morning person, so when I’m trying to come to terms with the unpleasant idea of getting out of bed checking my email is one way to put it off for a while. Or at weekends when a nice kind husband has brought me a cup of extra strong coffee to drink while sitting up in bed :-)

  • http://www.brilliantexpos.com Jeb

    I take my E61i to be with me so I can send a few more emails and read what comes in after I turn off my computer. It also doubles as my alarm clock. Just last week I got an email at 4am that kept me up for more then an hour while I was thinking about how to handle it in the morning.

    I also keep checking my phone waiting for an email from Ewan. Hint hint hint.

  • http://www.bamps.com Jeremy Freeman

    “Rather concerningly, around 40% of those surveyed plan their holiday around the availability of access to their email, and 83% admit to checking their mail while away. ”

    That certainly applies to me – I will not book a hotel that does not supply free internet access.

    I discipline myself to checking / responding to my email just twice a day – early am and late pm. Well, I do also glance at my Crackberry throughout the day…

    There’s nothing worse than getting stressed wondering how many emails I have to deal with on my return from holiday.

  • http://www.taptu.com/blog Vero

    I guess I’m also partially guilty of this. When I’m away from my laptop, especially when I’m a passenger in a car stuck on the M25, I’ll spend the vast majority of my time browsing the web on my N95, chronically checking email and twittering to vent my frustration at the roadworks. Only when I’m a passenger though.

    It’s the 37% who check their email while driving that worry me a little!

    I dread to think what I’d be like with a Crackberry though. Kevin Nalty’s “Crackberry” video comes to mind: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JqKEe_JEObg

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